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The House at Watch Hill
#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning is back with a gripping, imaginative, and seductive new series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets...
Zo Grey is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative, the terms of which he will only discuss in person. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a monstrosity of a house that sits ominously at the peak of Watch Hill—but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers.
Met with this irresistible opportunity to finally build a future for herself, Zo puts aside her misgivings about the foreboding Gothic mansion and the strange circumstances, and moves in, where she is quickly met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper.
Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles, with doors that go nowhere, others that are impossible to open, and a turret into which there is no visible means of ingress. And the townspeople are odd…
What Zo doesn’t yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house and that in order to discover her true identity and awaken her dormant powers, she will have to face off against sinister forces she doesn’t quite comprehend—or risk being consumed by them.
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Reviews
Why? I was so excited to see a new series start, but what a disappointment. What a waste of pages… so much was wasted on explaining what this or that looked like down to the number of dots on a ladybugs butt. The story barely took off until about page 300 and then it even drug out to the end without satisfaction. I’m sorry to say I found it boring and everything that happened could’ve been told in less than 100 pages.
By Sweet Ambrosia
The story is intriguing, and the characterization was sly. I found it hard to empathize with the protagonist...at first. I started putting pieces together that seemed to fit...and then started trying to rearrange the pieces. It seemed to me that the pieces just kept changing their contours. I hope that the story continues!
By An Mho Rioghian
As soon as I saw that there was a new book by Karen Marie Moning, I dropped everything that I was doing and instantly bought and read the book. I already loved her Fever series and wanted to see what other worlds and characters she would create. However, I do have to admit that not much happens in this book. Not much is answered, and the characters (other than the main one) are not really fully fleshed out. Prepare yourself for a lot (I mean a lot) of inner monologue. But I guess this is understandable as the main character has gone through a lot of confusing and life changing events. I am really looking forward to the next book as this one ended on a delicious cliffhanger. I hope the next instalment will have more plot progression and more interactions between the characters.
By bethgirma
Well written and fast paced.
By blubonnets